Freedman's Savings & Trust Co. v. Earle
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE SUPEEME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. The appellee recovered a judgment against Robert P. Dodge in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia on January 4th, 1878, for $7,700, with interest and costs, which was revived April 2d, 1879,' and on which a fi. fa. was issued April 9th, 1879, and returned nulla bona.
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APPEAL FROM THE SUPEEME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. The appellee recovered a judgment against Robert P. Dodge in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia on January 4th, 1878, for $7,700, with interest and costs, which was revived April 2d, 1879,' and on which a fi. fa. was issued April 9th, 1879, and returned nulla bona. On June 1st, 1877, Dodge, the judgment debtor, being then seized in fee simple of certain real estate in the city of Georgetown in this district, conveyed the same by deed duly recorded to Charles H. Cragin, Jr., in trust, to' secure to Nannie B. Blackford…
1Opinion of the Court
. Me. Justice Matthews
delivered the opinion of the court.
After reciting the facts in the foregoing language he continued:
As ground of reversal, it is assigned by the appellant that the proceeds of the sale of the equitable interest of Dodge, the judgment debtor, should have been distributed pro rata between the appellees, and the appellants, instead of having been awarded exclusively to the appellee. It is contended on behalf of the appellants that the interest of the judgment debtor in the land, being an equity merely, is not subject to execution at law;' and as it can- be reached by…
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